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Posts tagged with 'glbt' and 'queer' at MetaFilter.Wed, 09 Oct 2013 09:30:39 -0800Wed, 09 Oct 2013 09:30:39 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60These were the people I loved. They said "Chink" and they said "faggot."http://www.metafilter.com/132706/These%2Dwere%2Dthe%2Dpeople%2DI%2Dloved%2DThey%2Dsaid%2DChink%2Dand%2Dthey%2Dsaid%2Dfaggot
<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/connorkemuo/why-i-stay-closeted-in-asia">Why I Stay Closeted In Asia (SLBF)</a> <blockquote>I denied it, as my father and sister begged me to.<br><br>
I couldn't exaggerate to you how much my mother's face lit up, or how much I wanted, for a shameful second, for my lie to be true. I began to tell her a story, got into the groove, told it with what could be called pizzazz, or maybe just mercy. A monthlong fling with a Korean girl became a year ("I liked her; she had a cocaine problem"). Immediately she laughed with relief.<br><br>
"I wouldn't know how to deal if you were, you know, that" she said.</blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.132706Wed, 09 Oct 2013 09:30:39 -0800yeozFrance's symbolic fight over same-sex marriagehttp://www.metafilter.com/128839/Frances%2Dsymbolic%2Dfight%2Dover%2Dsamesex%2Dmarriage
<a href="http://sisterrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/the-french-right-marches-against-gay-marriage/">The French Right Marches against Gay Marriage</a>. Last month, France became the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/29/world/europe/france-same-sex-wedding/index.html">thirteenth nation</a> to recognize same-sex marriage. A large religious and political movement continues to protest loudly against the Socialist government's "Mariage Pour Tous" (Marriage For All) law. From the start, opponents of the law used the well-worn political tactic of co-opting language, rallying around the name <a href="http://www.lamanifpourtous.fr/en/">Manif Pour Tous</a> (Demonstration For All). But the wrangling over words and symbols went much farther with the splinter group Printemps Français (French Spring). Slate.fr examines <a href="http://www.slate.fr/story/71511/printemps-francais-symbole">why the symbols of France's right-wing groups come from left-wing movements</a> [link in French], including the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the US Civil Rights movement. Political scientist Jean-Yves Camus notes:
<blockquote>In France, when you want to gain the support of the public, you use symbols from the left. If the fight ever moved toward the right and its symbols, it would risk two things: connections with homophobia, and with the <em>Front National</em>. The French Spring wants to acquire an image of moderation and non-conformism, and the first rule of the left is the demonstration. The people of the right do not have the same custom of taking to the streets to defend their rights...</blockquote>
French president François Hollande believes the opposition went <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2013/05/27/hollande-critique-l-emploi-du-vocabulaire-de-la-resistance-par-les-anti-mariage-gay_3418337_823448.html">too far</a> [link in French] when it began calling for "resistance" and referring to the government and the press as "collaborators." On the 70th anniversary of the creation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conseil_National_de_la_R%C3%A9sistance">Conseil National de la Résistance</a>, Hollande declared that, <em>"The words still have a meaning... The Resistance was against Nazism, against the Occupation. The Collaboration were the French who were with the occupiers. And fascism, Nazism, dictatorship, are an era that is thankfully over."</em>
Mark Leonard (writing for Reuters) wonders if the French right's mobilization around same-sex marriage is a sign of a <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/mark-leonard/2013/04/22/protests-in-france-are-more-than-a-battle-over-culture/">shrinking political realm</a>. <em>"If no alternative is available on economic issues, politics will be reduced to symbolic battles about social issues."</em> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.128839Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:24:10 -0800mbrubeck"I thought I was the only gay person in the world for a long time."http://www.metafilter.com/126551/I%2Dthought%2DI%2Dwas%2Dthe%2Donly%2Dgay%2Dperson%2Din%2Dthe%2Dworld%2Dfor%2Da%2Dlong%2Dtime
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sutter-franklin-county-mississippi-lgbt/index.html">The county where no one's gay.</a> The 2010 Census of Franklin County Mississippi shows <a href="http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Census2010Snapshot_Mississippi_v2.pdf">no same sex couples.</a> <small>(pdf)</small>. CNN videographer Brandon Ancil and human rights columnist John D. Sutter tried to determine if the census was wrong, and see if they could find gay men and women willing to speak about "what keeps them hidden." <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAHtBZeApIw">Video</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.126551Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:19:04 -0800zarqButch Heroeshttp://www.metafilter.com/125378/Butch%2DHeroes
<a href="http://www.riabrodell.com/_/Current_Work/Current_Work.html">"In this series of portraits I am using the format of traditional Catholic holy cards to represent butch, queer women and queer female-to-male transgendered individuals from history."</a> Via <a href="http://www.autostraddle.com/artist-spotlight-ria-brodells-butch-heroes-158207/">Autostraddle.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.125378Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:35:02 -0800showbiz_lizI wanted to be a real person to my parents againhttp://www.metafilter.com/125166/I%2Dwanted%2Dto%2Dbe%2Da%2Dreal%2Dperson%2Dto%2Dmy%2Dparents%2Dagain
<a href="http://effingdykes.blogspot.com/2013/02/heart-of-glass.html">"Y'ALLQUEERS BETTER BE ON YOUR BEST BEHAVIOR, I AM HERE WITH MY MOTHER AND IT'S HER FIRST TIME IN A GAY BAR SO YOU JUST STOP THAT HANKY-PANKY RIGHT THIS SECOND."</a> (it takes a while to get started but this post made me a lil misty-eyed) tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.125166Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:55:21 -0800showbiz_lizTHE resource on the net for the history of GLBT musichttp://www.metafilter.com/120216/THE%2Dresource%2Don%2Dthe%2Dnet%2Dfor%2Dthe%2Dhistory%2Dof%2DGLBT%2Dmusic
<a href="http://www.queermusicheritage.us/index2.html">Queer Music Heritage</a> is a sprawling website about the history of queer music. You can listen to <a href="http://www.queermusicheritage.us/2000.html">twelve years' worth</a> of monthly radio shows (link goes to the first year, 2000); take a look at the <a href="http://www.qmh101.com/">Queer Music History 101</a> overview; check out the extensive photo galleries in the <a href="http://www.queermusicheritage.us/drag.html">female impersonators</a> section; or read through the <a href="http://queermusicheritage-theblog.blogspot.com/">blog</a>, which features interesting tidbits from gay musical history, like this overview of the <a href="http://queermusicheritage-theblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/sissy-man-blues.html">Sissy Man Blues</a>. And a shoutout to the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465026214/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940</a>. I found Queer Music Heritage by googling some of the songs listed in this book- almost every one of them has a page on this site. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.120216Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:20:33 -0800showbiz_lizGetting pepper sprayed > enlistinghttp://www.metafilter.com/115039/Getting%2Dpepper%2Dsprayed%2Denlisting
<a href="http://hivster.com/?p=6305">"I was wrong about Don't Ask, Don't Tell."</a> A <a href="http://oneangryqueer.blogspot.com/">discharged military activist and, lately, Occupy protester</a>, now says, "The reason I'm wrong isn't because gay people shouldn't join the Army. It's because no-one should join the Army." tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.115039Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:08:14 -0800liketitanicIt gets better.http://www.metafilter.com/108310/It%2Dgets%2Dbetter
<a href="http://aurora.barnard.edu/crow/archive/lesbian/Growing_Up_Gay.pdf">In the waning hours of National Coming Out Day, this 1976 pamphlet, "Growing Up Gay" [pdf]</a> was a publication of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_Liberation_of_Ann_Arbor">Youth Liberation</a> of Ann Arbor, MI (1970-1979). This <a href="http://www.bcrwarchives.org/collection/items/show/3">collection of coming-out stories</a> also advises young readers, in the years before the ascendancy of GSAs, on how to start "gay groups" at their schools and in their communities. The organization was started by <a href="http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2000/47/mosher.html">teen activists</a>, including <a href="http://www.youthcomm.org/who_we_are/background_papers/the_youth_rights_movement_1945-2000.html">Keith Hefner</a>, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient who continues to work for youth rights. Another young activist, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Yaco">Sonia Yaco</a>, ran for the <a href="http://www.youthrights.net/index.php?title=Sonia_Yaco">Ann Arbor school board</a> and won 8% of the vote, despite being too young to officially declare candidacy.
<a href="http://www.youthlib.com/generator/archives/2005/10/the_history_of.html">Additional bibliography on the youth rights movement.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.108310Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:02:38 -0800liketitanicNone On Record - Stories from queer Africahttp://www.metafilter.com/94383/None%2DOn%2DRecord%2DStories%2Dfrom%2Dqueer%2DAfrica
<a href="http://noneonrecord.com/blog">None On Record - Stories of Queer Africa.</a> After the <a href="http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2004/10/05/sierra-leone-lesbian-rights-activist-brutally-murdered">brutal 2004 murder</a> of FannyAnn Eddy, founder of the <a href="http://www.globalhumanrights.org/country-programs/west-africa/sierra-leone/grantee-profile-dignity-association-formerly-sierra-leone-lesbian-and-gay-association">Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association</a>, native South African Selly Thiam decided to start <a href="http://noneonrecord.com/blog/?page_id=25">recording the stories of African GLBTs</a> both on the continent and in the diaspora. The result is a growing oral document of "the hopes, struggles, challenges and joy of being a QLGBT African - in their own voices". Via Chicago Public Radio's <a href="http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Program_WV.aspx">Worldview</a>, which has an interview with Thiam <a href="http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=43542">here</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.94383Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:22:34 -0800Ufez JonesAndrea Gibsonhttp://www.metafilter.com/93952/Andrea%2DGibson
<a href="http://andreagibson.org/">Andrea Gibson</a>, slam poet and activist, <a href="http://www.andreagibson.org/bio/biography.html">is not gentle with her truths</a>. Her poetry focuses on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Gibson">gender norms, politics, and the struggles facing queer people today</a>. Her poems include <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoWNnt4Fdh4">I do</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kBU7xTS1Ss">Dive</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cEc3aQOP-o">Blue Blanket</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZg0ZCYDnaY">Photograph</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.93952Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:12:04 -0800kylejthe gold at the end of your rainbowhttp://www.metafilter.com/93622/the%2Dgold%2Dat%2Dthe%2Dend%2Dof%2Dyour%2Drainbow
<a href="http://unicornbooty.com/">Unicorn Booty</a> features gay-friendly North American businesses who <a href="http://unicornbooty.com/calendar">buy a day</a> to be featured with their own custom YouTube video, social media presence, and the opportunity for readers to <a href="http://unicornbooty.com/how">win or obtain their products at a discount</a>. 10% of their profits go to a different LGBTQ organisation per quarter. Past businesses featured include <a href="http://unicornbooty.com/prizes/second-star-travel-invites-you-unicorn-booty-cruise">travel companies</a>, <a href="http://unicornbooty.com/prizes/aero-tech-designs-0">cycling clothing</a>, and <a href="http://unicornbooty.com/prizes/dirtyboyzplayclean">grooming products dedicated to gay people</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.93622Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:16:29 -0800divabatLesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Monthhttp://www.metafilter.com/92346/Lesbian%2DGay%2DBisexual%2Dand%2DTransgender%2DPride%2DMonth
<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamation-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-pride-month">Barack Obama declares June to be Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.92346Sat, 29 May 2010 08:56:59 -0800kylejQueer Kidshttp://www.metafilter.com/91395/Queer%2DKids
<a href="http://www.acurator.com/#/2/41/0">Queer Kids: A Project by M. Sharkey.</a> <a href="http://www.acurator.com/blog/2010/04/queer-kids-a-project-by-m-sharkey.html">About the project </a>. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.91395Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:39:56 -0800kylejCan I Marry Gay?http://www.metafilter.com/81793/Can%2DI%2DMarry%2DGay
What with all the changes lately, sometimes I'm not sure where my right to marry whomever I want to has been ensured. <a href="http://can.imarrygay.com/">Can I Marry Gay?</a> is a handy reference with state by state information, and keeps me up to date. Worried about recent state Supreme Court decisions forcing you to join teh gay? <a href="http://must.imarrygay.com/">Must I Marry Gay?</a> is for you. [via <a href='http://projects.metafilter.com/2095/Can-I-Marry-Gay'>mefi projects</a>] tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.81793Wed, 20 May 2009 04:50:31 -0800ocherdracoGays: Vibrating Gatekeepers to Another Worldhttp://www.metafilter.com/79033/Gays%2DVibrating%2DGatekeepers%2Dto%2DAnother%2DWorld
<a href="http://www.menweb.org/somegay.htm">"You take the gatekeeper and you confuse his mind</a>. You threaten him and you throw him in the middle of nowhere. Then nobody knows where the gate is. As soon as you lose the whereabouts of the gate, then you have a culture going downhill. What keeps a village together is a handful of "gays and lesbians," as they call them in the modern world. In my village, lesbians are called witches, and gay men are known as the gatekeepers."</a> The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagaare">Dagara people</a> of Burkina Faso. "Christianity has separated spirit from body and spirit from Earth. And earlier you talked to us about Christianity suppressing your culture. So there's a suggestion here that suppression of homosexuality would be the way for the Christians to shut down the gateways, shut down the spirit, and shut down our connection with the Earth."
Unsurprisingly, the Dagara are popular with <a href="http://www.dagara.org/home.php">Christian</a> <a href="http://www.theseedcompany.org/project/dagara-nt">missionaries</a>.
As well as <a href="http://whoareamericans.com/2008/08/22/zangal/">NGOs</a>.
<a href="http://video.aol.ca/video-detail/the-dagara-cosmologywomens-wisdom-of-africa/1758753037/?icid=VIDURVTRV08">The Dagara Cosmology</a>.
<a href="http://www.rolfdanner.com/node/74">Shamanism in the gay community.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.79033Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:21:11 -0800pinothefrogPeople with a Historyhttp://www.metafilter.com/68736/People%2Dwith%2Da%2DHistory
<a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/">People with a History</a> is "an online guide to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans history." Ranging from <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/index-anc.html#c2">the first stirrings of civilization</a> to the modern day, People with a History gathers together original sources and academic articles dealing with queerness throughout history. To give you a feel for the wealth of material on the site, here are a few pages that caught my interest: <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/gayvik.html">The Vikings and Homosexuality</a>, <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/copticspell.html">Coptic Spell: Spell for a Man to Obtain a Male Lover</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19981205014731/http://www.bway.net/~halsall/lgbh/lgbh-montaigne.txt">an acount of a gay marriage ceremony described by Michel de Montaigne</a>, <a href="http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/lechery.htm">But Among Our Own Selves</a> (an 18th Century gay ballad), <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/sykeon-adelpho.html">a chapter from The Life of St. Theodore of Sykeon</a>, a 7th Century Byzantine monk and bishop, which mentions <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelphopoiesis">adelphopoiesis</a>, or the <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/2rites.html">rite of brothermaking</a>, <a href="http://www.sappho.com/poetry/wu_tsao.html">Wu Tsao</a>, 19th Century Chinese lesbian poet, and finally <a href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/paulb/polari/home.htm">Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.68736Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:20:31 -0800KattullusFabulously Friendlyhttp://www.metafilter.com/59761/Fabulously%2DFriendly
Gay? Looking for a place to Live? <a href="http://www.advocate.com/"> The Advocate</a> has just published their first-ever list of "<a href="http://advocate.com/currentstory1_w.asp?id=42767">Best Places to Live for Gays and Lesbians</a>." <a href="http://www.outincolumbus.com/">Columbus</a>, OH; <a href="http://www.dallasvoice.com/">Dallas</a>, TX; <a href="http://www.goaffirmations.org/site/PageServer">Ferndale</a>, MI; <a href="http://www.ilgbttf.org/">Ithaca</a>, NY; <a href="http://www.lexingtongsa.com/">Lexington</a>, KY; <a href="http://www.gaymontana.com/">Missoula</a>, MT; <a href="http://www.gaypdx.com/">Portland</a>, OR; <a href="http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/">San Diego</a>, CA; <a href="http://www.flock2it.com/">Santa Fe</a>, NM; and <a href="http://www.gaytucson.com/">Tuscon</a>, AZ. Pack your bags! tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.59761Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:03:47 -0800ikahimePlay it Billy!http://www.metafilter.com/59590/Play%2Dit%2DBilly
<a href='http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=7456'>Billy</a> <a href='http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_009.html'>Tipton</a> (1914-1989) was a moderately popular jazz musician who happened to have been born a girl and lived as a man. In retrospect, some see Billy as a woman pragmatically trying to make it in a male dominated field, others see Billy as clearly transexual. If you like jazz of the 30's and 40's, forget Billy's gender for a moment and take a<a href='http://www.queermusicheritage.us/feb2003bt.html'> listen</a> to Billy's playing! For more backstory, <a href='http://www.salon.com/books/sneaks/1998/05/18sneaks.html'>biographer </a>Diane Middlebrook has posted a <a href='http://www.dianemiddlebrook.com/tipton/timeline/frames.html'> timeline</a> of Tipton's life. More recently, Tipton has inspired jazz ensemble <a href='http://www.myspace.com/tiptons'>The Tiptons</a> <small>launches sound</small>, a <a href='http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780375704635-4'>novel</a>, <a href='http://www.albemarle-london.com/Archive/ArchiveShow.php?Show_Name=The%20Slow%20Drag'>a few</a> <a href='http://www.wtfestival.org/performances/detail.php?PerformanceID=397'>plays</a> and butch/punk/queer director Silas Howard is <a href='http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/People/2006/3/silashoward.html'>working on a film</a>.
Oh, and here's <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Tipton'>WP</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.59590Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:10:20 -0800serazinTransgender Day of Remembrancehttp://www.metafilter.com/21957/Transgender%2DDay%2Dof%2DRemembrance
<a href="http://www.gender.org/remember/about/core.html">Remembering Our Dead:</a> An online memorial to honor "those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice." The list includes <a href="http://www.gender.org/remember/people/marshajohnson.html">Marsha Johnson</a> - a key participant in the 1969 Stonewall Riots - as well as the recently murdered <a href="http://www.ntac.org/pr/release.asp?did=55">Gwen Araujo</a> (whose funeral was <a href="http://www.eastwest.nu/mtblog/archives/000013.html">thoughtfully blogged</a> by Philo at East West). November 20th was the 4th Annual <a href="http://www.gender.org/remember/day/what.html">Transgender Day of Remembrance</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.21957Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:55:31 -0800mediareport